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EPISODE 17: Race Co-Pilot

This episode discusses RacePace, a web app for trail runners that combines training data, race details, pacing, nutrition, and equipment planning. It uses GPS watch data, a short survey, AI, and machine learning to build personalized race strategies.

09.06.2026 47 min

Zusammenfassung & Show Notes

This episode is in ENGLISH

In this episode we talk about RacePace, a web app that helps trail runners prepare for races by combining training data, race details, pacing, nutrition, and equipment planning. We explain that the tool connects to a GPS watch, takes a short survey, and then builds a personalized race strategy using AI and machine learning.
We also discuss the background behind the product. Ido shares that RacePace came out of his own experience of training well but struggling to translate fitness into race-day execution, especially because of nutrition, pacing, terrain, weather, and aid station time. We talk about how athlete feedback shaped the platform from the beginning and continues to guide development. A large part of the episode focuses on the pacing features. We describe how the app shows race information, an interactive course map, elevation profiles, aid stations, waypoint views, predicted times, and editable pacing plans. We also cover how the plan can be adjusted for different scenarios and exported to a watch or as a printable cheat sheet.
We then go through the nutrition planner. Julie explains how the tool helps us plan carbohydrate, fluid, and sodium intake based on race conditions, sweat testing, and weather. We also talk about adding personal foods, matching products to race-day aid stations, and placing nutrition into the race timeline in a practical way.
Finally, we cover the equipment checklist and the dashboard that tracks readiness and training progress toward race day. We close by emphasizing that the platform is designed for trail runners, is built with athlete feedback, and aims to make race preparation simpler and more accessible.

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Chapters
0:26 English Episode Intro
1:32 Ultra Race Background
4:30 From Fitness to Execution
6:07 Building RacePace
8:30 Athlete Feedback Matters
14:10 How RacePace Works
18:03 Course Pacing Tools
28:29 Nutrition Planning
39:55 Training Runs Too
41:46 Gear Checklist
43:12 Race Readiness Dashboard
45:01 Why It Matters


DEUTSCH

In dieser Episode sprechen wir über RacePace, eine Web-App, die Trailrunner bei der Vorbereitung auf Wettkämpfe unterstützt, indem sie Trainingsdaten, Renndetails, Pacing, Ernährung und Ausrüstungsplanung miteinander kombiniert. Wir erklären, wie sich das Tool mit einer GPS-Uhr verbindet, eine kurze Umfrage durchführt und anschließend mithilfe von KI und maschinellem Lernen eine personalisierte Rennstrategie erstellt.
Wir diskutieren auch die Hintergründe des Produkts. Ido erzählt, dass RacePace aus seiner eigenen Erfahrung heraus entstanden ist: Er war zwar gut trainiert, hatte aber Schwierigkeiten, seine Fitness am Wettkampftag optimal auf die Strecke zu bringen – vor allem aufgrund von Faktoren wie Ernährung, Pacing, Gelände, Wetter und der Zeit an den Verpflegungsstationen. Wir sprechen darüber, wie das Feedback von Athletinnen und Athleten die Plattform von Anfang an geprägt hat und die Entwicklung auch weiterhin leitet. Ein großer Teil der Episode konzentriert sich auf die Pacing-Funktionen. Wir beschreiben, wie die App Renninformationen, eine interaktive Streckenkarte, Höhenprofile, Verpflegungsstationen, Wegpunkt-Ansichten, prognostizierte Zeiten und anpassbare Pacing-Pläne anzeigt. Außerdem gehen wir darauf ein, wie der Plan für verschiedene Szenarien angepasst und auf eine Uhr exportiert oder als Spickzettel ausgedruckt werden kann. Danach gehen wir den Ernährungsplaner durch. Julie erklärt, wie das Tool dabei hilft, die Aufnahme von Kohlenhydraten, Flüssigkeit und Natrium basierend auf den Rennbedingungen, Schweißtests und dem Wetter zu planen. Wir sprechen auch darüber, eigene Lebensmittel hinzuzufügen, Produkte auf die Verpflegungsstationen am Wettkampftag abzustimmen und die Verpflegung praktisch in den Zeitablauf des Rennens zu integrieren.
Schließlich behandeln wir die Ausrüstungs-Checkliste und das Dashboard, das die Startbereitschaft und den Trainingsfortschritt bis zum Renntag verfolgt. Zum Abschluss betonen wir, dass die Plattform speziell für Trailrunner entwickelt wurde, auf dem Feedback von Athleten basiert und das Ziel verfolgt, die Rennvorbereitung einfacher und zugänglicher zu machen.

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Kapitel
0:26 Intro der englischen Episode
1:32 Hintergrund zu Ultra-Wettkämpfen
4:30 Von der Fitness zur Umsetzung am Renntag
6:07 Die Entstehung von RacePace
8:30 Warum Athleten-Feedback entscheidend ist
14:10 Wie RacePace funktioniert
18:03 Tools für das Pacing auf der Strecke
28:29 Ernährungsplanung
39:55 Gilt auch für Trainingsläufe
41:46 Ausrüstungs-Checkliste
43:12 Dashboard für die Startbereitschaft (Race Readiness)
45:01 Warum es darauf ankommt / Warum es wichtig ist


Transkript

Speaker1
00:00:18
Welcome, everybody. Welcome to episode number 17. Welcome to INFINITE TALK, the podcast of the adidas INFINITE TRAILS in Gastein. Today, as you can hear, we switch to English because we have some international guests. So it's mucheasier to do the podcast in English rather than doing it in German. Today, we're going to cover an amazing point, an amazing topic for you guys. We're talking about a race co-pilot today and what it can do for you andhow it works and I think this is like it is the next extension of our big goal to bring you safe and healthyover the finish line. And today I'm joined by two trail runners, one of them you know really well, which is Juli Brüning. You know her as a sports nutrition coach and also from our partner Precision Fuel & Hydration. Welcome Juli.
Speaker0
00:01:12
Hi Mike, happy to be back.
Speaker1
00:01:13
Absolutely and we have Ido Dassa. He is the CEO of RacePace, it's a startup company from Vienna. So welcome Ido.
Speaker0
00:01:22
Hey Mike, thank you for having me.
Speaker1
00:01:24
How was the travel from Vienna to Kolbermoor?
Speaker0
00:01:26
It was amazing, beautiful ride.
Speaker1
00:01:28
So no problems with the train?
Speaker0
00:01:30
No, no, not this time, let's see on the way back.
Speaker1
00:01:32
Absolutely. So we're talking about a race co-pilot today. And first of all, let's talk a little bit about you guys and especially about your history. You just came back from an ultra backyard in Israel. You were born in Israel. And so tell us, it was 295 kilometers?
Speaker0
00:01:53
265. Yes. So running for 38 hours straight in a backyard ultra concept. That was my longest race until this day. And a bit about my background. So I came from ultra running and I'm racing for more than eight years in ultras. So I started running ultras quite young. I was doing it professionally for The North Face, COROS and other brands representing Israel, also nationwide, but also worldwide in championships all over the world and races. And yeah, so this is a big part of something that I really like to do, running on the mountains, crossing the mountains, especially really long distances.
Speaker1
00:02:35
So that must be amazing. I mean, to run 39 hours, how can you do that?
Speaker0
00:02:41
It was tough, I have to say. It was really tough. Also, training-wise, it's really hard to train to this kind of duration of activities. There is a lot of mental training, I would say, and the sleep deprivation is really big. And this is one of the main cause to DNF in this kind of races. But I trained well and I was the assist, so I finished second. So after I quitted, basically, the race was over. So they only waited for me to stop.
Speaker1
00:03:09
So how many kilometers ran the winner?
Speaker0
00:03:11
So he ran just one loop more than I, and then it's over.
Speaker1
00:03:16
Okay, that is just like a 7K loop more.
Speaker0
00:03:20
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker1
00:03:21
So Juli, what was your longest race you ever did?
Speaker0
00:03:25
Well, the longest race I've participated in, was a 105 kilometers so far. All the other stuff that's been longer was just like on personal projects.
Speaker1
00:03:37
So that's more like an FKT?
Speaker0
00:03:39
Yeah, exactly. I tried a few ones and the longest has been back to back on the days, 275 kilometers.
Speaker1
00:03:49
That's quite a bit of a journey, isn't it?
Speaker0
00:03:52
A lot of kilometers here on the table. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker1
00:03:55
Except me, right? No, let's talk about it. I mean, you guys, when you've listened to our last podcast about sports nutrition and fuel to race, you know exactly - I gave you the quote from Andy Blow, the CEO of Precision Fuel & Hydration. He said it's like there's a lot of circumstances which you can't control on the race day or even in training, which is weather, which is conditions, which is surface and everything like this. But the two things you can control is actually pacing and it's nutrition.
Speaker0
00:04:30
Absolutely. This is really true. I can connect it to experience that I had that actually make us build Race Pace. So I was training for a couple of long races for 100K ultras in the mountain, in the Alps. And then during the training I felt great I had a really good blocks of training, everything worked really good and then on race day everything fell apart and I DNF two big races and I had another race that I was underperforming, really underperforming, and I felt that it's not because my training wasn't right or I didn't put the effort, it was mainly because I had a difficulty to translate the fitness that I had in training into race day execution. And it's starting from nutrition and then nutrition along the race and from the gear and from the pacing specifically and also the weather of the race that changed dramatically versus the training that I had. And after this couple of bad experiences that I fought together with my coach and with my support team, we thought like, if it happened to me, like as someone that's doing it professionally and have all the support and the assistance with the training, it must be happening to everyone. So what are the usual trainees and the athletes doing? And then we just like - I had this idea of sending on a Facebook group, just asking other runners how they deal with this, like translation from fitness into racing strategy and how they deal with it. And then we discovered that I'm not alone. This is a big problem.
Speaker1
00:06:08
So RacePace is a startup. You guys are based in Vienna. So how many people are joining the company now?
Speaker0
00:06:14
Yeah, so we are three founders building RacePace for almost a year now. Together with us, there is another three employees that are working together as a team. Since the last three months and yeah, we're moving fast and trying to build an incredible product for trail runners to help them to have the best race they experience that they can have.
Speaker1
00:06:37
So what is it exactly? So is it like an app? Is it like a computer software? Or what is Race Pace?
Speaker0
00:06:45
So basically we are a web app. So a platform that you can use on the website on the computer or on your mobile phone. And what we are doing actually is we're connecting with your sport watch. So GPS watch, doesn't really matter the brand that you have. And we analyze your data and your history and your sleep and your recovery and everything that basically we can look at of your training data. And from the other perspective, we also analyze your specific race. So what terrain you're facing, what is the weather, what are previous results of other athletes that are similar to you, the grade, the terrain, everything, like the biggest granularity. And we analyze this to data point, let's call it. And then we create with AI and machine learning, we create a personalized racing strategy that fits exactly to you and to your race.
Speaker1
00:07:37
Is it a subscription model or how does it work?
Speaker0
00:07:41
Yeah, so it's a subscription model. You pay one time for a year. We understand athletes race all over the year and train all over the year. And we don't want to be there only for one month and go. You see the great value of Race Pace also on the first time, but you really get the value when you use it and you make it a habit. And this is why we don't want to limit for one month. And we see that it makes more sense to have the athletes using it for the whole year.
Speaker1
00:08:10
So it's like €49 as an annual fee?
Speaker0
00:08:13
Yeah. So we try to keep it as affordable as possible. So at the moment, it's €49 for a year. And...
Speaker1
00:08:22
and here is the good news for all our competitors of INFINITE TRAILS. There will be a special subscription fee for 39€. Before we're going to show you, there is a reason that Juli is joining us today. And I mean, Ido was sending me an email and asking, like, hey, Mike, is this somethingyou could be interested in? And I looked at it. And yes, I immediately saw the advantage and the benefits. And this is the reason I sent it over to Juli, because, you know, as a nutrition coach, because nutrition is a big, big part in that web app, I sent it to Juli and I said, it's like, what do you think about it? So is it worth the 39 euros or the 49 euros annual fee?
Speaker0
00:09:05
Yeah, I just had a look at it right after you told me more details about it. And it's an absolutely amazing tool where I think 39 euros is almost nothing for what it all, yeah, provides what you can do with that.
Speaker1
00:09:23
I think, you know, when we got in contact with Ido and the team, I immediately could see that there is like willingness to learn. And then, the thing is like, the whole thing cannot be better than anything else than getting the feedback from the athletes. So how important is the feedback from athletes, Ido?
Speaker0
00:09:43
Absolutely. And it's really important for us to say that this product is shaped by the athletes that supported us from day one. So it was really clear for us that in the early days that there is this big problem. And I face it, a lot of different athletes face it, but it's not clear how to solve it. And it involved just hundreds and really hundreds of calls and user interviews and discussion and demos with athletes, with real runners, that tested the product from day one on the trails, on the races. And that helped us to shape the product until the point that it is today. And that will keep being the main thing that we will do in the next couple of months, just having feedback from runners and implementing this feedback into the product.
Speaker1
00:10:29
Yeah, I can tell you, guys, I can tell you already a secret. Before we were doing that podcast now we had a very long session this morning and Ido was showing us the new UI of the whole web app, which is coming in a couple of weeks. It is amazing. And Juli was giving all her input and feedback. How important is that input from coaches?
Speaker0
00:10:53
Well, for us, it's amazing because at the end of the day, every runner, every athlete is an individual and have like the things that work for him or her. But coaches and domain experts in that field see these kind of use cases in masses. So it's not only one or two, they see like 10, 20, 100 of different use cases and they know how to look at these kind of problems and solutions. And for us, that was really valuable to better understand patterns in specific athletes, so kind of athletes. So this kind of input is irreplaceable. And I think when we met Juli first time and she gave us the feedback about the nutrition concept that we have, it's changed so much from the moment that she saw back then and what is going to be live now. So yeah, thanks to this input.
Speaker1
00:11:44
So what was the input, Juli? What was the input you could bring to the party to make this product standing out?
Speaker0
00:11:53
Yeah, I was really happy about the connection to Ido because with the nutrition plan to be able to integrate not only the carbohydrate intake but also the hydration part in individualized form was for me as a practitioner,eye-opening to display that in an easy, accessible way for all the runners and also to have the sweat sodium concentration and sweat rate measurements and data in it to individualize their intakes.
Speaker1
00:12:29
I think it comes always back to the point, right? The sweat test is one of the most important tools for a trail runner.
Speaker0
00:12:38
Yeah, it's funny how this journey started and is following to all the points we're going. And it's very underrated generally or just not known that there is an introvert sodium concentration and each individual has an own different sodium concentration.
Speaker1
00:12:59
Yeah, for all of you who haven't listened to our podcast episode number 16, this is exactly what we talked about, that it is really important and it's crucial to know your sodium concentration. So Precision Fuel & Hydration, especially Juli, there's a couple of spots in Germany and Juli is the only one in Austria during that sweat test, but it's it's the base for every step from this point onwards.
Speaker0
00:13:28
Yeah, and with Ido's team and especially with Lee, it was great fun to go into a detailed conversation about how to be able to put the nutrition science into a practical bite-sized format that will form for each of the runners an individualized plan and is able to adjust to different weather conditions that will change. Fluid intakes, for example, to make the understanding about sodium concentration very easy and then also to be able to plan that in a very easy, accessible form into an elevation profile on the whole race course.
Speaker1
00:14:10
So coming back to the name, which is called the race pilot, I mean, a pilot and a co-pilot in the airplane. A pilot is doing the start and is doing the landing. And the co-pilot is flying the plane between these two important parts. Is it the same with the race pilots that, first of all, you need to get into the app with all your data and then prepare everything and then co-pilot is doing the job for you?
Speaker0
00:14:38
So Race Pace's purpose is really democratized elite coaching for the everyday athlete. And we try to take all this knowledge and all of this data that nowadays we collect through watches or different tests like sweat tests and try to make it something that we know how to translate into actionable insights. And at the moment, you come to Race Pace and you just need to connect your watch and answer a survey. Beside that, you can add a lot of different data inside the platform. We allow you to put almost everything that exists and any data point that you can collect that will improve all of the input and output that we provide you. But I will walk you through the onboarding session from the registration from the user perspective.
Speaker1
00:15:24
So first of all guys, and that's normal, I think first of all you need to create a user account.
Speaker0
00:15:30
Exactly. So you come, you put your name, email, password, you register. And then the second thing that you will need to do is to connect your watch. So we support all watches. It's like two minutes thing that you can do everywhere.
Speaker1
00:15:43
Then it starts with a kind of a survey or...
Speaker0
00:15:47
Yeah, exactly. Then the third part will be tell us about you, which is just a survey. We ask about your history, about what you're good at, what you're bad at, what experiences you had before, or if you came from road running or from trail running. So it's just like a questionnaire that you go through and it really helps us to better understand your advantages and disadvantages and also your goals and why you came to Race Pace. And after you finish this questionnaire, basically the first thing that you will see is you've been asked to choose a race. For the sake of the example, we will choose the INFINITE TRAILS, the 45 kilometer adidas INFINITE TRAILS and I will just go through the race plan and for the ones of you that don't see my screen I will walk you through the the features and the details that Race Pace shows you. So we first start with the race information. We collect all the information about your race from the YouTube video, from the date the location the start location the website, everything that you need to know from the raw details about the race, including weather. So weather in previous years at the beginning. And as long as you come closer to the race, the weather will update and change according to the real weather data.
Speaker1
00:17:12
There's also a link directly to the website, so you don't need to bookmark it. So everything is coming out of one base then.
Speaker0
00:17:21
Exactly. We want to make your race preparation process the easiest we can, so you have the best race day experience that you could have. We hate DNF. This is what we're trying to fight, and we want you to have this great race day experience because you deserve it. You train hard, you put the time, you put the effort in, and we don't want you to do small mistakes that at the end of the day will lead to a bad race.
Speaker1
00:17:45
So the first page on the app, you could say, this is the database. That is actually giving you all the data collected over the years. As you said, there's like weather profiles on the race day in the last three, four years. There's a race highlight to get hyped and everything like this.
Speaker0
00:18:04
Exactly. The second page will be the race plan. So we focus on pacing here and the first view that you will see is a 3D map of the course. It's an interactive map that you can click, zoom in, zoom out, pan, tilt and really go into really, really great details of the course itself. You can zoom in here and see the granularity of the course in a really high quality. In addition to that, you will have the option to see the race through a 3D elevation graph. So the elevation graph, unlike the 3D map, it's just like a two-dimensional elevation graph that you can see the elevation gain versus the distance. And you can see also the segments of the race. The segments, this is something that we usually use in two ways. So there is aid stations. So we determine the segments of the race by aid stations from the race organizer. This is something that is a factor. And in addition to that, we add waypoints. And waypoints are aligned with the waypoints from the race organizer.
Speaker1
00:19:15
Yeah, I think this is really important and it was really important for us that, you know, guys, when you download the Trail Book, you see the aid station, but also you see the differentwaypoints. And right now, if you're downloading your Trail Book and you're opening the elevation profile in Race Pace, that is synchronized.
Speaker0
00:19:34
Exactly. And one of the nicest thing is that you can switch between the 3D view, the map, and the elevation graph that you already used to see in many other races. And what we are able to do here is really switch between the waypoints view to the aid station view and really try to analyze better and understand better the race course itself and also to navigate through these segments. So beside this view of the race itself, we have here below the predicted time and recommended time from Race Pace. So in general, on the entire race, you will see estimated moving time. So this is your total time moving inside the race. You will see the aid station delay. So this is the total time that you will spend in aid station along this course. And also the elapsed time, which is basically the moving time plus the aid station time. Everything here is editable. So the prediction that you see and the times that you see are based, first, on this course. So the technicality of the course, the length of the course, everything that we collect from the data point of things and also from your watch. So we look at your previous activity, trying to better understand what you're capable of at the moment. Or it really depends when you're connected to Race Pace, by the way. So if you connected four months before the race, your race plan will update all the time and we will talk about it really soon. But if you come just one week before your race, you will see what you really need to execute on race day. And this is for the entire race. So you will see like the overall time and you have like this option to zoom in or double click on every segment of the race and try and really learn for every this kind of segment how fast you need to move, how fast you need to rest, how much time you need to spend in every aid station. And that will really guide you segment by segment along the race.
Speaker1
00:21:31
And can I change it? So for example, if I know I'm a pretty good downhiller, so I'm running downhill faster than climbing?
Speaker0
00:21:39
Yeah, exactly. So we know that you know yourself better than us. So if you have some small things that you want to change, let's say at that specific aid station, you don't want to spend four minutes, you want to spend six minutes because you want to switch shoes. So you can edit it here and everything will sync accordingly. So everything that you see here is a recommendation, but this race plan is fully personalized. You can edit everything from pace, from nutrition, from everything, any number that you can see in the plane, you can edit and it will auto-calculate everywhere else automatically.
Speaker1
00:22:12
When I first saw it, Juli, what do you think about it? Because with this pacing strategy or predicted finishing time, nobody's calculating the delay in an aid station, right? And if you have like five, six aid stations, you're spending five, six minutes, that sums up to 45 minutes at the end and this completely can destroy your target, right?
Speaker0
00:22:37
Yeah, it is. Last weekend I discussed with one runner who was doing the Berlin Marathon that he totally underestimated how much time he would spend at the aid stations to just get to the water and with all the cups on the ground, so slippery. And same is true for the aid stations on a trail race course. And you really have to factor this in.
Speaker1
00:23:01
Because otherwise you're going to be really disappointed or you're getting the wrong information, right? That you are behind your pacing strategy. Was this a kind of thing that you had in mind, Ido?
Speaker0
00:23:12
Exactly. And one of the things that we do take into account is we have an algorithm that really splits the time inside the aid station according to your specific race. So if you do a really long ultra, you will find different timing for every aid station according to the difficulties of the race and the strategy itself. So if you have a drop-off bag in one of the aid stations, we take that into account. Or the longer stations that you need to eat real food or, I don't know, switch clothes. This is something that you see already into the calculation and it helps you to have a better understanding of what to expect on race day. We also always tell runners to bring additional fuel or a spare gel because they sometimes end up spending 45 minutes or longer on a trail because they didn't calculate the time they would spend at the aid stations as well. Or in a previous race they just spent too much time on an aid station and take the learnings from the next one and really want to calculate that and put this into the plan as well. Exactly. Another important thing that we have on the platform, so first we have segments tips. So we generate AI tips according to your specific training and the specific segment. So if it's a technical segment you will see different tips than if it's flat or downhill and this is really tailored to that specific segment of the race and underneath that you will see a table view so this is for really who likes to work with excel sheets, we allow you to use your excel sheets, we love excel sheets, and you can export basically the whole plan - that is the 3d map and and this elevation graph view you can also export it in a table that you like and you can customize everything inside the table so so the views itself the column itself the data that you see inside so we didn't forget you, you can also use that. And one of the last things from the pacing perspective is we allow you to edit everything and you look into your your race plan and you you can play with it and edit it. And then what you do with that race plan? So we have two main use cases. We have runners that really like physical things so they export this race plan we call it cheat sheet so they can export it into a picture. They can save it on their phone as a screenshot or they can print it. We have a lot of users that print it and laminate it and carry it with them inside the running vest and they pull it out every opportunity that they need. And the second option that we have is to export the race plan to the watch. This is my favorite option. So basically we have some scenarios. So you can choose between best case scenario, realistic and conservative scenarios. And it depends on race day. We also ask you a couple of questions before you see this race plan about your condition at the moment and what is your goal with this specific race. And we change the prediction according to those parameters. So you can choose here as well, which scenario you want to export. You can split the race plan by waypoints or aid station or both, as we already discussed. That will be also exported to the watch and you can choose a gap. So we will recommend you for a specific pace for a specific segment and you can change the gap, the tolerance gap. So you can have 30 seconds more than that specific pace or 40 seconds more or one minute more. And basically you just click send it to watch and you will see that race plan on your phone so I'm using COROS I will go to the calendar and I will see on the race day date I will see this race plan already waited for me and I just need to 'sync with watch' and click 'start'.
Speaker1
00:27:02
Yeah, and if you're using a COROS watch, as Ido said, it appears in the training calendar, and from the training calendar you can create a workout. And I think that is another step which is amazing, because then you have a workout on the watch which you still can use to navigate. So I think this is also really important. So you're not limiting yourself in terms of navigation, which you normally do, if you put your COROS watch on, go on trail running, navigate, start. So right now it shows also like workout in the same system and then when you go for navigation then you have like the alerts as well
Speaker0
00:27:40
Exactly. Usually in my races this is how I use it so I also download the gpx file here from the from Race Pace from the race plan and I have the gpx file also with all the waypoints already, so when I'm running I have the navigation on one screen and I have the race plan on the other screen so I just toggle between these two. Another last point about the pacing plan, we have the annotation label here, so we can add and remove data from everything here. So if you prefer not to see specific paces or timestamps or elevation, you can remove and change almost everything, which is really feedback that we got from a lot of runners. So the tool is really, really flexible.
Speaker1
00:28:20
And what we can see is really customizable.
Speaker0
00:28:22
Exactly. Everything here can be editable and changed according to your preference. The next thing that we will focus on is the nutrition plan. This is a really powerful tool that may be worth mentioning, that everything that you see in the moment will change soon. It really depends when you will hear this podcast and when you will go to the product. But in the making is a new version of Race Pace. The functionality stays the same. So the value stays the same. We will solve the same pains. But from the visual perspective, the tool will be much stronger than what it is at the moment, much more intuitive, and you will find your way really quickly inside the new platform. And I'm sure that you will enjoy it. Mike and Juli just saw it before this podcast and we got a lot of great feedback. So this is the nutrition plan. The idea here is that you have specific goals that you want to hit in every hour of the race. We come up with these goals based on the early survey that you answered when you registered to race pace you can always come here and change them according to your preference, and then we put the weather for the race here so you can see it so that specific forecast for race day and we show you that we adjust this race plan the nutrition plan according to the weather condition on race day. So if it's going to be cold or hot race day it will change accordingly. After the hourly recommended intake you will see the total recommended intake which is basically the total amount of sodium, carbs and water that you will need to consume during the race. Then this is the fun part. So here we are going to the product selection. So basically we have a library of nutritional product that you can choose the quantities of every product that you want to have during your race. Here we have the nutrition from Precision Fuel & Hydration, because you will see them on race day in the aid station as well. But you always can add food from your own. You can just click here on the add food and add manually whatever you want. From the technical food to the real food, really flexible.
Speaker1
00:30:49
Yeah, we added also right now, we added the bananas, we added the melons, the oranges, apples. We also added Manner wafers and we also had the gluten-free Schär crackers. So everything is in.
Speaker0
00:31:02
Exactly, everything is here. You can also see there is like three pages of all the nutrition that you will find on race day in the aid station. And then the next phase will be start clicking and choosing products. So for the sake of the example, I will just start and click on different products here. I will increase my carbs. I want to take, let's say, four Precision Fuel & Hydration and 90 gram carbs gels. I will take some 30 gram carbs chews. And I will take also some sodium tablet with me. And while choosing this product you will see, on the upper part of the product selection, you will see a loading bar. This bar actually marks the amount of carbs, calories, and sodium that you're choosing from the product library and it makes sure that you are not underfueling so you have the exact amount of fuel that we recommend you and we plan together to have. The next step after choosing the nutrition, again, you can choose any products that you want here and you will see how it's loading the bars accordingly.
Speaker1
00:32:10
So that means if I have a different sponsor, for example, I can upload my own sponsor food as well? Exactly. Or let's say it's like the food I'm used to?
Speaker0
00:32:20
Exactly. So you can add here any food that you have in mind. You can add specific weights of food and kind of food. And you just need to insert the amount of sodium and the carbs that they contain. And they will appear here. And you do it only one time. So you upload it one time and it stays here as your favorite food. And you can carry it for every other race that you're going to do. And then you just click and choose it according to the amount that we recommend you.
Speaker1
00:32:49
And right now we see the free bars that are in green. That means I've perfectly fueled.
Speaker0
00:32:54
Exactly. You're perfectly fueled. You're even overfueled. You can see on the right top side that we have a bit more calories and sodium that we need, which is absolutely okay for us. Now the next phase, which is the fun part, after we chose all the nutrition that we like to carry with us, we really plan when we're going to consume what and along the time of the race. So for the one of you that don't see, we just chose all of the products that we want to have and we have this drag and drop system. With that we can choose specific nutrition that we want and we mark it and we drag and drop it to the required hour of the race. So for that race we have nine hours of race and I just click on the specific product let's say 90 gram of carbs and I drop it inside the first hour and I can do so if I want to electrolyte load a bit before the race I can also put it on the before the race tab and I just plan and drag and drop all the nutrition that I plan to have every hour on the hour. And then I can see also for the hourly, I see exactly how much carbs I'm intaking inside every hour of the race to make sure that I'm hitting my goals. And also on the bottom of the page you will see the amount of food that you packed on the hourly basis and you have this loading bar and you want to make it full so to hit green and it will reach the green part as long as you add enough product for every hour of your race.
Speaker1
00:34:38
Juli, what do you think?
Speaker0
00:34:40
This is where the real magic happens. Once you know how long you take for the whole race and then how much time you spend between the aid stations having the ability to, and also have a bit of education, knowing your numbers you want to hit for the race regarding your fuel, your hydration, your fluid, your sodium, to tailor this to the aid station or your own fuel you bring and then put this into the racing hours.
Speaker1
00:35:07
I mean, remember last podcast we did, we're talking about the Precision Fuel & Hydration toolbox. You know, it's like you can take a 90, you can take a gel, a 60 chew bar or another 30 gram chews and everything. This is exactly what we talked about, right?
Speaker0
00:35:27
Usually it took me ages to build nutrition plans from scratch. And they never looked as good as it will be with Race Pace. And also, I was surprised sometimes when athletes left the consultation how difficult it still was with all the knowledge to bring actually these numbers into a race nutrition plan. This is exactly why we built it. So that was a problem that we saw again and again from runners. And we tried to think what is the simplest solution that can help athletes and not overwhelm them already with so much data and things that they need to do, but to plan the exact thing that they need to have from the nutrition point of view for every section of the race. And I can tell you already that the new version of this nutritional concept based on Juli's input and a lot of other athlete input, it's super practical. So you just drag and drop one time. We remember your nutrition preferences for your next races. We allow you and help you to split it accordingly to all over the race. So exactly which segment or hours to eat what. And for me, it's a game changer in the way that I consume my energy along the race course.
Speaker1
00:36:43
Yeah, let's talk about a little bit of a secret. We saw the new UI and the new app version already. It's amazing, because you're not only talking about hourly consumption in there, right now we're talking about segment consumption and this is like really practical when you're running from aid station to aid station so i think the adjustments Juli for the new version are amazing.
Speaker0
00:37:08
Absolutely, especially as you will be exactly able, what we were talking about, for the kind of educational part,to see this in practice and having the ability to put fuel, for example, for between the aid stations that you know exactly what you need and to visualize that and put this into kind of a toolbox for yourself to have this outlined in a plan so you can read through it and see it on the whole race. And also to have the fluid intakes with the sodium, hourly sodium intake, sodium recommendations per liter of sweat, for example, to have this adjusted to the weather conditions. When they will change, your plan will change too. And you don't even have to do anything to calculate or recalculate this yourself. This will be an automatic process, which is extremely valuable because you don't want to overhydrate or underhydrate. And the unpredictable weather forecast for yourself, you don't want to spend hours and hours preparing and re-preparing your plan because you think it will snow and then we'll be hot again. And this is the individualized part that is now able to access in a plan with your pacing as well, so you don't overpace or start too conservative. And this is aligned to your fuel, your energy needs, and then also to your sweat rates, sweat losses, fluid intake, and sodium.
Speaker1
00:38:44
I mean, we saw it last year with the weather condition, with snow and cold, the consumption was more than 30% than normal.
Speaker0
00:38:54
This is an extreme increase just because of a weather scenario is changing.
Speaker1
00:38:58
It's like you're taking more, because you're burning more, because running in snow is much tougher than running on gravel. And I think this is something which probably people don't put into consideration. And I mean, this is like where the co-pilot comes in, right? So it's like thinking of possibilities and making your life easier.
Speaker0
00:39:20
Exactly and there are so many races that you don't have the ability to train on race course and you live in your wherever you live and you train there and then you fly to a new country or new mountain a new area and this is the first time that you see this race course and you have so many difficulties that you you need to take into consideration in advance. One segment that you think you can do in one and a half hours and then you see in reality it's four hour because you didn't know that it's that technical. And this reflects your nutrition as well. And this is exactly how we help athletes.
Speaker1
00:39:55
So when you go on the website, findracepace.com, you see a lot of races right now, but you are not fixed on races. So as an individual trail runner, I can upload my own trail run. So I could use it for a long run as well. I mean, this doesn't have to be like a race course, right?
Speaker0
00:40:15
Exactly. This is something new that we build because our athletes ask for it. So we used to focus on only races. And now you can upload any activity that you want. So you want to have a long run near your home or to run a long simulation or small activity. It doesn't really matter. You just drag and drop the GPX file and you have this course on the platform and you can have everything that we just saw from pacing to hydration and nutrition for that specific activity. And send it directly to your watch and practice it.
Speaker1
00:40:49
I mean, I remember, Juli, you said in the last podcast, it's like, with the game with consumption, high consumption or high intake of carbohydrates. This is also like a tool which you can play around in the training, right? So when you want to go from 75 to 90 or from 60 to 90, you can play around and can find out if it worked.
Speaker0
00:41:14
Yeah, absolutely. And also you can plan ahead how you want to achieve to hit these numbers and see if this is working well for you or not because there are personal preferences as well. And it also is great because it's kind of a gaming tool to help train the gut, for example, and keep this just more fun preparing a new plan, put this on your watch, trying to execute this, see how it worked or not and adjust it and go out for another run.
Speaker1
00:41:46
So, but it's not only about the pacing, right? Not only about the nutrition strategy and about my nutrition planner. You know, it also is a little bit like a checkbox. So the next part is the equipment. So you can put in your mandatory equipment so you guys don't need to worry about it, because we're going to insert this for you already. So you have your mandatory equipment for INFINITE TRAILS. But also I mean if you for example if you need sodium capsules you can say okay I want this into my race kit as well and then when you're packing on the evening or packing in the morning then you have like a checkbox where you just can put your hook in and then you know exactly I got in my in my western my backpack.
Speaker0
00:42:32
Exactly. So we have the equipment list as well which basically shows you the mandatory gear and also the recommended gear that we recommend you to have for that specific race and it's based on again AI and the terrain and the difficulties of the course, but also from other experience from different races that different runners that did this race before. And here you can manage basically also your checklist and just make sure that you have everything wrapped up for your race, but you can also add things according to whatever you want so you can manage to add the nutrition list if you want to put it here and also any other thing that you can you that you want to pack with you. And maybe a last thing that you can also do on the platform, and it's a really powerful tool, is in the dashboard, we will show you your progress towards your race. So as we discussed earlier, you can connect to Race Pace one week before the race, but you can also do it four months before the race. And if you do it and you have enough time before the race day, on the dashboard, you will see the progress in readiness. And you will see every week how your training affected on your race prediction and then this is the tool for you to really see how your training really aligns with race day execution. And then you just have this graph that shows you how much you improved or did not improve your prediction according to the last week of training. And this is a tool that is really meant for runners to make sure that their trainings are aligned and are taking them towards the right direction on their specific goals.
Speaker1
00:44:10
I think what is really important, even if it's like an app, you don't need to be a technical nerd.
Speaker0
00:44:17
Yeah, it's true. We really try to build it not that way that only geeks can enjoy it, because I think there is really a lot of tools on the market now, especially for running, that can help you to nerd out of it and really go to the most small details. And we try to do the opposite. We try to make it easier to not let you think. To make you the easiest way to consumeonly the things thatmatter for you and for race day and if you want to learn more you can always double click we allow you to double click and and see exactly what's happening behind the scenes but the the default is you see only the important things.
Speaker1
00:45:01
You're really approachable. You have a WhatsApp channel where you can reach the CEO directly. How important is that feedback again? I mean we would like to invite you guys to join us on the 25th to the 28th of June for the INFINITE TRAILS Community Weekend in Gastein. Ido will be there and we're doing a couple of practices. So Juli why should somebody running INFINITE TRAILS go for this tool
Speaker0
00:45:30
So we always say confidence comes from preparation. And the preparation shouldn't be over complicated because you definitely will quit and we can have the complicated things in in the back, but you want to access it really really easy. We wanted to do the thing for you like the thinking and actually Race Pace is exactly putting this into the pacing and nutrition plan.
Speaker1
00:45:59
Three important things about Race Co-Pilot, Ido.
Speaker0
00:46:05
That it's easy to consume and you can consume it like, it doesn't matter if it's just like five minutes before the race or five months before the race. So you get the value that you came for. The second thing is it's more than us as a company. It's runners' feedback. We build it not in a closed room. We talk with runners on a daily basis. We have WhatsApp groups with our beta users and our WhatsApp. So on the platform, we just look into hearing your feedback all the time and we're trying to improve by doing it. And I would say the third thing is build for trail runners. We are trail runners. We're building for trail runners. This is the most important thing for us and we want to make this sport more accessible, easier, nicer, and help you to have the best experience that you can have on the trails.
Speaker1
00:46:54
45 minutes. We talked about Race Pace, your race co-pilot with the special features coming out in a couple of weeks for INFINITE TRAILS. We hope you enjoyed that podcast and we're looking forward to listen to the podcast next two weeks. That is episode number 17, Race Co-Pilot. Thanks a lot. And let's see you on the next one.
Speaker0
00:47:20
Thank you very much. Thanks.

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